DNN 5.x to 6.x upgrading issues

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I suffered the issue when upgrading a old DNN site from 5.x to 6.x that the new installed module doesn’t appear in the modules dropdown list and Assigned Premium Modules/Assigned list

To address the issue I took a discovery in DNN db schema and worked out the following sql.

declare @targetDesktopModuleId bigint
set @targetDesktopModuleId = [the desktopModuleId of your new installed module]
declare cur_portalId cursor for
select p1.portalId from portals p1
where not exists(
select portalId from PortalDesktopModules p2
where DesktopModuleID = @targetDesktopModuleId
and p1.PortalID = p2.PortalID)
declare @portalId bigint
open cur_portalId
fetch next from cur_portalId into @portalId
while @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
begin
INSERT INTO PortalDesktopModules
(portalid, DesktopModuleID, CreatedByUserID, CreatedOnDate, LastModifiedByUserID, LastModifiedOnDate)
values(@portalId,@targetDesktopModuleId,-1,GETDATE(),-1,GETDATE())
fetch next from cur_portalId into @portalId
end
close cur_portalId
deallocate cur_portalid
GO

 

The @targetDesktopModuleId is the desktopModuleId for your new installed module which can be get in the following sql.

select DesktopModuleID from DesktopModules
where FriendlyName = '[the friendly name of your module]'

 

The new installed module will appear in the aforementioned two list after run the sql above. If not, please restart your site or simply do a meaningless change in web.config to enforce the caches of the site to be reloaded.

 

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